THRILLING THURSDAY:

Not to be confused with Doctor Strange.

Doc Strange is a fictional character, a comic book superhero who originally appeared in Thrilling Comics #1 (Better Publications (also called Nedor Comics) 1940). The character was revived and renamed ‘Tom Strange’ in the modern age in Tom Strong #11 (published by America’s Best Comics) by Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse.

His civilian identity is Doctor Thomas Hugo Strange, a scientist operating in the United States. He operated under the name ‘Dr. Strange’, later ‘Doc Strange’ during the Golden Age of Comic Books. He had no secret identity.

Doc Strange appeared in the following titles in the Golden Age:

America’s Best Comics #1–23, 27
Thrilling Comics #1–64

THRILLING THURSDAY:

One of the places I have yet to visit is Guanajuato, Mexico… the city is home to the Mummy Museum. The Mummy Museum is the largest collection of mummies in the Western Hemisphere.  Almost all of the people were commoners and came from backgrounds such as miners and farmers. 

The first of the documented mummies, which has been on display in one form or another since the 1870s, is that of a French doctor named Remigio Leroy. He can still be seen at the current museum. Of the children in the collection, one can see evidence of a practice where deceased Catholic children were dressed as angels, if girls, or as saints, if boys, to indicate their purity and assured entrance into heaven.

One of the main reasons for the mummies’ fame in Mexico is the 1972 film “El Santo contra las momias de Guanajuato,” which featured Mexico’s most famous lucha libre wrestler, El Santo, as well as two others called Blue Demon and Mil Máscaras. In this movie, the mummies are reanimated by a wrestler known as “Satán” and El Santo fights to defeat them. The movie was filmed in the Guanajuato cemetery and has since become a cult classic.

Besides the Mummy Museum, Guanajuato is also home to the Festival Internacional Cervantino, which invites artists and performers from all over the world as well as Mexico. The city was also the site of the first battle of the Mexican War of Independence between insurgent and royalist troops at the Alhóndiga de Granaditas. The city was named a World Heritage Site in 1988.

THRILLING THURSDAY:

A solar eruption, something that is beautiful and dangerous. Streams of charged particles that fly off the sun can interfere with electronics on Earth and satellites orbiting our planet.  

The Universe is like our mind, beautiful and dangerous at times. 

“To the mind that is still, the whole Universe surrenders.”  Lao Tzu

THRILLING THURSDAY:

One of the most thrilling places I’ve been to is Acapulco.  Several movies have been made about Acapulco and “Fun in Acapulco” was one of them.  In this 1963 movie, Mike Windgren sings…

 “You can’t say no in Acapulco.  Where romance blooms, and love is in the air.  So kiss me tender, love me true.  Darling feel this magic too.  Don’t say no, you can’t say no in Acapulco.  Don’t say no, you can’t say no in Acapulco.”

So, for those of you who are diehard romantics make sure you go to Acapulco where your significant other can’t say no.

Photo by Anna M. Poore

THRILLING THURSDAY:

What can be more rejuvenating then letting the inner child play where she/he feels free and alive.  Where does your inner child like to hang out and/or hide out?  

Copyright:  Anna M. Poore

THRILLING THURSDAY:

NASA has joined the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

Euclid will launch in 2020 and will be out in space mapping the locations and measuring the shapes of as many as 2 billion galaxies within one-third of the sky. It will study the evolution of our universe, and the dark matter and dark energy that influenced its evolution.

“NASA is very proud to contribute to ESA’s mission to understand one of the greatest science mysteries of our time,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington.

For more information about Euclid, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/euclid, http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=102 and http://www.euclid-ec.org/ .

Image found at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/euclid/news/euclid20130124.html

THRILLING THURSDAY:

Spring is an awakening moment of our inner and outer world.

“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” Katharine Lee Bates

THRILLING THURSDAY:

“Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.”  Evo Morales 

Image found at http://mag.citizenseye.com/poetry/nature-questioning-mother-earth-poem/

THRILLING THURSDAY: 

Excerpt from Larry Kirby’s poem entitled, “Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding.

“My words are for you

to know and understand

that in a most Sacred manner I honor

and respect the life you have put before me

I seek the strength

to forever continue upon this sacred path.”

Image found at http://www.natures-blessings.org/articleEarthDay.html